More than just being a welfare queen, Kim Davis has Redefined Sin in the same way she accuses those she is Bigoted against of Redefining Marriage.

By Kim Davis’ Religious standards you could commit, say, murder – ask for forgiveness from the voices in your head (God!) – be Forgiven of your Sin – then you could murder whoever you wanted and as many as you wanted and it wouldn’t be a Sin, because you were previously Forgiven of murder.
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An open letter to Kim Davis from God.

Your God sees you as someone who has spit in His face and thrown away His Forgiveness, by continuing to commit exactly the same Sin that you just asked His Forgiveness for, then loudly, publicly & pretentiously pretending to be “Forgiven”.*

Then you claim that your Fake “Forgiveness” allows you to make your personal Bigotry overrule both the Law (so you can offend others you don’t like) and what your own Religion clearly says (so you can avoid accepting responsibility for your own continuing Blasphemous Bigamist Adulterous Marriage*).

Your God despises you for your actions.*

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* According to Kim Davis’ God in His various Holy Books, including very specifically, Kim Davis’ Bible.

¡Andrew!

10:29 am • Friday • October 2, 2015

@jaycubed: I was raised in a Southern Baptist church (shudder), and to them Gawd was just a sky-high Santa Claus that doled out Get Out of Hell free cards on demand.

nojo

11:53 am • Friday • October 2, 2015

And, The Vatican walks back slowly, now comparing the meeting to a glorified reception line.

Mistress Cynica

4:23 pm • Friday • October 2, 2015

@nojo: A report I heard this morning said that one of the former students who attended the audience with the Pope is openly gay. /Vatican PR machine freaking out as they watch all the good will dissipating.

Why fun? Because the Kim Davis news came from, well, Kim Davis and her Liberty Lawyer. The Vatican would only confirm the bare facts of Face Time, and then said it was barely a Meet & Greet.

Liberty Lawyer talked to NPR, and was cagey about the circumstances and length of the meeting — couching it in terms that suggested he was protecting Vatican procedure. But the suggestion now — if we’re to believe the Vatican — is that Liberty Lawyer was wildly overplaying the event, seeking the publicity he actually got.

Well, if anything at least this incident has caused people to realize that–to paraphrase Gawker–Cool Pope is a seemingly nice old man who still promotes the same hateful Catholic ideology. Nothing has changed regarding the Church’s stance on women nor “intrinsically disordered” gay people.

nojo

12:21 am • Saturday • October 3, 2015

@¡Andrew!: The optimistic view would be that the tonal shift sticks, and even if doctrine doesn’t change, it’s treated like some unenforced arcane law still on the books.

But even if Francis pulls off kinder, gentler, pastoral global Catholicism, the mood is only good as long as his tenure. He replaced a Benedict, and could easily be replaced by another.

ManchuCandidate

7:27 pm • Saturday • October 3, 2015

The obit for Jeb!: Jeb! Happened

SanFranLefty

9:28 pm • Saturday • October 3, 2015

@ManchuCandidate: He so clearly doesn’t want to actually run or be president and is doing his damndest to sabotage himself.

nojo

9:35 pm • Saturday • October 3, 2015

@ManchuCandidate: That’s odd. Jeb was much more proactive when it came to Terry Schaivo.

nojo

9:47 pm • Saturday • October 3, 2015

But presuming it’s not Trump/Carly/Dr. Doom, it still has to be somebody — and conventional wisdom is that you stay in the race until your money runs out. The only thing Jeb doesn’t lack is money.

That said, I have no fucking clue who survives New Hampshire or South Carolina, both of which are still months away. And until we get any actual primary, I see no reason why The Greatest Shitshow on Earth shouldn’t continue unabated.

nojo

12:07 am • Sunday • October 4, 2015

Meanwhile, Trump subscribes to the NRA fanrasy: If only all the Umpqua students were armed!

But Trump’s leaving money on the table: What if the Sandy Hook kids were armed?

ManchuCandidate

2:06 am • Sunday • October 4, 2015

@nojo:
Would be a more tragic version of the ending of a Tarantino movie or Peckinpah’s the Wild Bunch.